WHAT IS TASAWWUF: 12 (talk by Mufti Taqi Usmani DB)

 AN EXAMPLE

 

I often give an example that if you ask the greatest philosopher, scholar, poet or orator to describe the scent of a rose in words so clearly that someone would be able to differentiate between the scent of a rose from the scent of a jasmine flower just by listening to them, then they will never be able to do so. The only way to differentiate between the scent of a rose and a jasmine flower is to smell them. There is no other way of telling the scents of these two flowers apart.

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